If only some othersuper attractive personhad thought of suggesting that earlier
Growing Pains had at least 4 different versions of the same song, with the singers frequently changing:
B.J. Thomas (solo)
B.J. Thomas & Jennifer Warnes
B.J. Thomas & Dusty Springfield
uncredited a capella version
The Flintstones song changed at some point in its trajectory. I thought the change corresponded to a change in the accompanying artwork, adding in Pebbles and then Bamm Bamm, but that doesn’t seem to be the case
MUSIC:
Older: (sorry, hads one of those YouTube 4 second ads in front) here
Newer: sorry no link, can’t find the damn thing. The big band sound at the very beginning was more attenuated; the bird that Mr. Slate yanks on to signal end-of-day SQUAWKED instead of making that industrial-whistle sound like the above link has, and the overall audio quality was better on the choir and so on. I don’t think the words wer changed.
CARTOON:
originally the two couples and the cat and Dino the dinosaur; then Pebbles was added; then Bamm Bamm was also added. The two kids get popped up on top of Dino’s head at the drive-in
Garfield and Friends went through three opening themes:
The Sons of Anarchy theme changed for the portion of Season 3 spend in Ireland
My wife just watched the entire run of The Guardian. Although the show ran from 2001 to 2004, the first season had an intro theme, with horns and no words, that sounded straight out of the 1970s. Then it completely changed, instead using the song “Empire In My Mind” by The Wallflowers (along with a completely different opening title sequence.)…so it then sounded straight out of the 1990s.
A lot of anime shows change the opening AND closing theme at the halfway point in the series. Episode 4 of “Angel Beats” changed the style the opening theme, “My Soul, Your Beats”, to compliment the content of that episode.
There have been other changes over time besides just Kenny’s mumbling.
There was a total of one episode in the 2nd season that had a different, longer opening, and modified version of the song. I’m not saying your thing didn’t later happen, but that one episode opening has always left me going “huh?”
I’m just now watching the show and still in season one. I hope the 2nd orgasm is better than the first. That was a bad orgasm. Apparently they do exist.
Neither did I. IIRC, Stewie said it in his “posh” voice, and it sounds more like “leff 'n cry”, which is probably what led to the confusion.
When Bea Benaderet was on the show, the second verse was something like:
*There’s a little hotel called the Shady Rest at the Junction
It is run by Kate, come and be her guest at the Junction
And that’s Uncle Joe, he’s a-movin’ kind of slow at the Junction
*
After she left, it became:
There’s a little hotel called the Shady Rest at the Junction
It is run by Joe, come and be his guest at the Junction
There’s a lady MD, she’s as pretty as can be, at the Junction
Actually, in the first season or two, the theme wasn’t “Meet the Flintstones”, but the instrumental “Rise & Shine”, which used a completely different video. Reruns replaced the original opening with a version of the later opening with a 1966 copyright date (and also had the line “through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet” missing, so the ending is out of sync); this in turn was replaced with a newer version.
A couple of others:
Doc (starring Barnard Hughes) originally had a song with lyrics, before switching to an different instrumental
Caroline in the City originally had a very brief opening of Caroline the comic strip character before changing to a montage of various strips
Do game shows count?
Celebrity Sweepstakes switched from one theme to another, then back to the original.
The 1970s Name That Tune had three theme songs.
Hollywood Squares used a disco theme for its syndicated weekly version in the late 1970s.
When 1970s Sale of the Century switched to a two-couples format, the theme changed.
It also went through two different themes during its daytime run on NBC. Steve Allen wrote lyrics for the first one (“The Silly Song”), which Peter Marshall performed on Steve’s syndicated talk show in the late '60s and early '70s.
Gilligan’s Island had a weird Calypso number for its pilot episode (as well as a somewhat different cast), and it had the infamous lyric change from “And the rest” to “Professor and Mary Ann.”
Star Trek: Enterprise, keeping “Faith of the Heart” for its whole run except where noted earlier, changed the lyrics and instrumentation in a later season. Law & Order kept the same basic theme but shifted from “downbeat” to “sweeping” around the third or fourth season.
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Blackadder**, of course, had a different period theme song for each season.
The Simpsons’ theme song has had many different versions. 
“Designing Women” had a “Georgia on my mind” sound-a-like song for it’s opening credits (IIRC, unless it was just an odd instrumental version of it) and then later had Ray Charles’ performing the actual song.
From 1975-83, when it was a daytime-only show, “Wheel of Fortune” used a brassy theme (with bongo and synth accents) composed by Alan Thicke. It was replaced by Merv Griffin’s “Changing Keys” in 1983. That tune was in turn rearranged several times, and the last vestiges of it eventually disappeared.
The first two runs of “Password” each changed themes. The show’s rather bland theme of 1961-63 was replaced by a much more distinctive, rather swinging Bob Cobert composition in the summer of '63. The ABC run had one theme from 1971-74 and another in 1974-75, both good in their own ways.
In fact, this is the only show ever to win the Best Title Music Emmy multiple times.
Add the 1960s Spy Sit-Com ‘Get Smart’ to the list - for the first four seasons the intro music was the same, but the fifth and last season the theme was changed to, I guess a more jazzier or pop style, coinciding with the move of the show to CBS.
Someone was nice enough to compile all six of the Get Smart intros - The B&W pilot (Max drives a Ferrari from a parking spot on one side of the street to a spot on the other), Season One and Two (Max parks a red Sunbeam Tiger), Season Three and Four (Max parks a blue VW Karmann Ghia), and Season Five (shots of various Washington DC landmarks, then Max parking a gold Opel GT), and finally the TV Movie ‘Get Smart Again’ (which I am not counting here). In all the regular season intros, Max’s walk down the hallway of many doors to the phone-booth elevator at the end looks to be the same video, with just different Title credits super-imposed.
Man, viewing them all together, it’s amusing how unsynchronized the door-closing sounds are from the visuals of the doors closing.
After the first season of CHiPs, the theme song was re-arranged into a disco/funk version. http://chips-tv.com/Fun/sounds.shtml (at the bottom of the page)
The Dick Van Dyke Show theme changed slightly depending on which video version was used. The percussion was different at the point where Dick tripped over the ottoman, sidestepped it, or just walked around it then tripped on the rug. All 3 versions at once: Dick Van Dyke Opening Times Three - YouTube
There was also another opening, with stills and credits only, and the theme song was broken up with short bongo sequences. But I’m not sure if that was for season one or only used for syndication.
And in the second season different lyrics for each episode.
That 70’s show changed to a different artist covering the same song after the first season.
Two major changes (both after the first season or half season IIRC): Kojak and Magnum PI.
And a smaller but still noticeable change after the first season or so: The Rockford Files.
All in the Family had a number of different versions of “Those Were The Days”.
Jeopardy had several different different theme music openings. The “Think” music has always been the Final Jeopardy music. BTW, I had heard that Merv Griffin made a few million on the “Think” music, but according to Wikipedia Merv said he made over $70 million! :eek: